Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Kenya and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing London Community Gospel Choir to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aswad,
Minutemen,
The Skatalites,
Aaron Thompson,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Gladiators,
Oneida,
Whodini,
The Real Kids,
Judy Mowatt,
The Invisible,
Kenny Larkin,
Warren Ellis,
Piero Umiliani,
Flipper,
Scientists,
Goldenarms,
Hardrive,
Bobby Byrd,
Jimmy McGriff,
Crime,
In Retrospect,
Alison Limerick,
Symarip,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dennis Brown,
Connie Case,
Porter Ricks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Human League,
Lungfish,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Q65,
Marine Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
The Electric Prunes,
Yaz,
Mission of Burma,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mummies,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Skaos,
The Motions,
The Moleskins,
Kurtis Blow,
Andrew Hill,
Half Japanese,
James White and The Blacks,
Sun City Girls,
Ituana,
Crooked Eye,
Underground Resistance,
Sight & Sound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Velvet Underground,
Pantaleimon,
Brick,
Adolescents,
Depeche Mode,
Black Pus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.